News Release Archive
May 15, 2012
AMES, Iowa – If you think local food stops at the Saturday morning farmers market, think again. Iowa State University offers a host of organizations, programs and classes related to local food systems.
April 18, 2012
BOONE COUNTY, Iowa -- Farmers have just begun planting corn and soybean in Iowa’s bare fields, but on experimental plots in Boone County, a lush green crop already covers the ground.
Canola, the source of a healthful vegetable oil, may provide a marketable third crop for Iowa that helps...
April 16, 2012
AMES, Iowa -- A potential problem for Iowa fruit and vegetable growers can be turned into a liquid asset, thanks to a one-year research project conducted by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach and funded by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture.
High tunnels are inexpensive,...
April 12, 2012
AMES, Iowa -- The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture website is featuring results from four recently completed projects. The Center provides support for research, education, and demonstration projects to help Iowa farmers at all levels with production and marketing issues. Among the...
April 2, 2012
AMES, Iowa – The Leopold Center invites nominations for the 2012 Spencer Award for Sustainable Agriculture, which honors people who have made a significant contribution to the ecological and economic stability of Iowa’s family farms.
You may nominate yourself or others for the award....
March 30, 2012
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa – To further help Iowa farmers on small to mid-sized operations learn ways to reduce their reliance on fossil fuel use, the Iowa Farm Energy Working Group produced three videos of farmers telling how they use energy efficiency, conservation, or renewable energy successfully...
March 22, 2012
AMES, Iowa -- Join a diverse group of Iowans at the Iowa Local Food Summit on Tuesday, April 3 to make your voice heard about creating a more vibrant food system for our state.
March 13, 2012
Celebrate the complexity and mystery of soil at the Iowa premieres of a new documentary film, Symphony of the Soil. Screenings and a panel discussion with the filmmaker will take place on Tuesday, March 27 at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls and on Wednesday, March 28 at Iowa State...
March 7, 2012
AMES, Iowa -- The Iowa Farm Energy Working Group has awarded three demonstration grants for 2012 to Iowa farmers with small to mid-sized operations to demonstrate how they can reduce fossil fuel use and meet their energy needs through energy efficiency or the use of renewable resources from on...
March 5, 2012
AMES, Iowa – Creating a vibrant food system in Iowa requires diverse voices and strong partnerships. The Local Food and Farm Program team invites you to contribute to a lively discussion at the Iowa Local Food Summit on Tuesday, April 3. The event will take place at the Scheman Building...
February 22, 2012
PRAIRIE CITY, Iowa -- With small strips of native prairies, Iowa farmers can provide vital habitat for grassland birds that have diminished in numbers across the United States, according to research funded by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture.
Anna MacDonald, graduate student in...
February 20, 2012
AMES, Iowa -- New research funded by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture explores a valuable public policy option for creating a more resilient power grid in Iowa, one designed to strengthen rural economies and contribute to cleaner water and air.
February 16, 2012
AMES, Iowa – An afternoon of readings, music and conversation will honor Iowa native Aldo Leopold, whose celebrated book A Sand County Almanac has inspired generations to strive for a more ethical relationship with the land.
February 13, 2012
AMES, Iowa -- Sandra Steingraber, acclaimed ecologist, author and cancer survivor, will speak at Iowa State University on Sunday, March 4 about her compelling call to abolish the fossil fuel dependency that forces parents to raise their children in a toxic, ecologically unstable world.
Steingraber...
February 1, 2012
AMES, Iowa – The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture has awarded grants to 21 new projects that will bring Iowa’s ecology, economy and sociopolitical systems closer to sustainability and resilience.
The projects fall under all four of the Leopold Center’s initiatives...
January 30, 2012
AMES, Iowa -- Bernie Havlovic and Michael Natvig work at opposite corners of Iowa. They’ve each spent more than thirty years in separate arenas—Havlovic managing research projects at Iowa State University farms, and Natvig transitioning his family farm to organic crops and livestock....
January 26, 2012
AMES, Iowa -- The new FY2011 annual report from the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University echoes the year’s theme of “Perseverance.” An illustrated timeline commemorates important events in the Center’s 25-year history.
The report focuses on the...
January 23, 2012
DES MOINES, Iowa – A six-member advisory council met for the first time to review progress on Iowa’s new Local Food and Farm Program that seeks to increase farmer profitability and the number of jobs in local foods.
Craig Chase, interim coordinator of the Marketing and Food Systems...
January 11, 2012
AMES, Iowa – A statewide program designed to build a “Culture of Conservation” in Iowa will be working closely with the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture over the next three years.
January 5, 2012
AMES, Iowa — A microbiologist with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been named the next director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University.
Mark Rasmussen, supervisory microbiologist and director of the Division of Animal and Food Microbiology at the...
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